Mass Shootings

Another incident in Germany couple of hours ago.


AT least 30 people, including small children, have been injured, some of them seriously, after a car ploughed "full throttle" into a carnival crowd in Germany.

A silver Mercedes station wagon drove into the crowd at 2.30pm local time (1.30pm GMT) this afternoon during a procession in Volkmarsen, a town in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse with a population of 7,000. The driver of the car was arrested, the police in Kassel said, while refusing to confirm whether of not they were treating it as an accident, while stressing they did not believe there to be a "political motive". Multiple reports have suggested similar events throughout the region have now been put on ice as a result.
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Another incident in Germany couple of hours ago

It's just coming through the American news feed now. German media said the driver deliberately broke through plastic barriers set up by police around the parade area. Police have called off all carnival parades in the German state of Hesse.

Car drives into German carnival parade, more than 30 reported injured
People react at the scene after a car ploughed into a carnival parade injuring several people in Volkmarsen, Germany February 24, 2020.     Elmar Schulten/Waldeckische Landeszeitung via REUTERS.
More than 30 people were injured on Monday after a car plowed into a carnival parade in the western German town of Volkmarsen, Bild newspaper said on Monday.

Police confirmed the incident but said it was too early to say exactly how many people were hurt or whether it was an accident or the driver had deliberately rammed the car into the crowd.

“Unfortunately, we cannot rule out that it was done with intent,” police spokesman Reiner Linger, police spokesman for the nearby city of Kassel, told Welt TV.

German news website HNA cited witnesses as saying the driver appeared to have deliberately targeted children and had driven “at full throttle” into the crowd, which had gathered for the Shrove Monday procession.

Bild said that a third of more than 30 people hurt were seriously injured. Police called off all carnival parades in the German state of Hesse, where Volkmarsen is located, as a precautionary measure.

The incident comes less than a week after a man gunned down 11 people, including himself, in one of the worst racist attacks in Germany since World War Two.

Carnival is hugely popular in parts of western Germany, especially in Rhineland cities such as Cologne and Duesseldorf, where festivities peak on “Rose Monday” with tens of thousands attending street parades featuring comical or satirical floats.

Police cars and ambulances rushed to the scene in Volkmarsen, a small town in northern Hesse, 260 miles (420 km) west of Berlin.

“We are on the ground with a big deployment. An investigation is underway,” north Hesse police said on Twitter after the incident, which they said occurred at about 2:45 p.m. (1345 GMT).

Amateur pictures published online showed police officers standing next to a silver Mercedes-Benz car that appeared to have been involved.

German media said the driver deliberately broke through plastic barriers set up by police around the parade area.

The car had continued driving through the crowd for about 30 meters (33 yards) before coming to a halt, an eyewitness told broadcaster Hessenschau.

The broadcaster said eyewitnesses described the man as between 20 and 30 years old and that around 1,500 people had been expected to watch the parade.

Driver of car in German carnival crash was 29-year-old German: police to media
The driver of a car that rode into a carnival parade in the German town of Volkmarsen was a 29-year-old German citizen, a police spokesman was cited as saying by broadcaster Hessenschau.

The regional station said police had told it they had no immediate information about the man’s motive, but believed he had acted intentionally.

Car plows into crowd during carnival parade in central Germany

Car plows into crowd during carnival parade in central Germany
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Local police said that the driver of the vehicle had been arrested after it ploughed into the crowd, adding that police were present en masse at the scene.

At least a dozen people were injured after being run over by the vehicle, according to German media reports, with some outlets reporting that small children were among the victims.

Police said an investigation was underway, urging bystanders of the event to refrain from sharing footage and images online and requesting they upload it to a dedicated information portal instead.

Wir wissen, dass der Wunsch nach umfassenden Informationen groß ist.
Wir appellieren jedoch eindringlich an alle, die Bilder oder Videos aus #Volkmarsen haben:
Halten Sie sich zurück mit Spekulationen; verbreiten Sie keine dieser Aufnahmen.
Ein Hinweisportal wird eingerichtet.
— Polizei Nordhessen (@Polizei_NH) February 24, 2020

The targetted crowd was marching during the Rose Monday procession, a major event taking place during Germany’s carnival festivities.
 
Car plows into crowd during carnival parade in central Germany

I wonder, if this incident might have something to do with recent headlines on the Aalst Carnival?

“Aalst Carnival is a shame,” says Margaritis Schinas
'Aalst Carnival a shame,' says European Commissioner

Monday, 24 February 2020 - European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas, in charge of promoting the European way of life and fighting against antisemitism, on Monday strongly condemned floats and disguises caricaturing Jews at the Aalst Carnival the day before.

“It is clear to me: the Aalst Carnival is a shame. It needs to stop. No place for this in Europe,” Schinas tweeted in reference to carnival groups who, surfing on last year’s controversy, on Sunday again depicted Jews with hooked noses, sometimes dressed as ants.



The float had caused a furore internationally and led UNESCO to withdraw the Carnival from its World Heritage list.


Aalst Carnival ‘even more painful than last year,’ says Belgian Jewish organization Monday, 24 February 2020
Aalst Carnival 'even more painful than last year,' says Belgian Jewish organisation

No antisemism’: Aalst botches live translation at Carnival press conference Monday, 24 February 2020
'No antisemism': Aalst botches live translation at Carnival press conference

The parade also saw the European branch of the American Jewish Committee call for an EU investigation, with its director, Daniel Schwammenthal, saying that Sunday’s displays warranted the use of a political sanctions mechanism against Belgium which has already been used against Poland and Hungary.

“The European Commission should consider the Article 7 procedure (…) Because the Flemish and Belgian federal authorities refused to prevent this grotesque public expression of anti-Semitic hatred,” Schwammenthal said, referring to a mechanism which allows the EU to suspend a member state’s rights and impose other sanctions if it considers a country to have breached the bloc’s core values, reports De Standaard.

Israel welcomes Aalst carnival removal from UNESCO list

Belgian carnival defies calls to cancel parade with Jewish caricatures
Revellers in costumes attend a carnival parade in Aalst, Belgium February 23, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
A satirical Belgian carnival parade decried by Israel's foreign minister as "hateful" went ahead on Sunday despite being withdrawn from the United Nation's list of recognized cultural events over accusations of racism and anti-Semitism.

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Driver of car that crashed into carnival is injured: prosecutors to media Monday, 24 February 2020
A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt said the driver of a car that ploughed into a crowd of people at a carnival parade in the town of Volkmarsen was injured so could not immediately be questioned, regional news program Hessenschau reported.

Police investigate injured German, 29, suspected of driving into carnival Monday, 24 February 2020
German prosecutors and police are investigating a 29-year-old German man suspected of driving into a crowd at a carnival in the town of Volkmarsen and he is being treated by doctors due to injuries he suffered in the incident, they said in a statement.
 
Dead men don't tell tales.

German "anti-fascist" propagandists must be having a field day. A "xenophobic" German going on a shooting spree...
Has he been radicalized by right-wing bloggers or is he an innate racist (as so many Germans are alleged to be)?
Or did he have a schizophrenic disorder intensified by drugs and alcohol?

No doubt gun laws will be tightened, free speech be curtailed and the migrant victim theory emphasized.

I think it's far too early to speculate about him being an intelligence community patsy.

Yes, the way public perception is managed is just disgusting. Same old "here's proof that everyone who doesn't agree with the mainstream is a Nazi."

I agree that it's too early for conspiracy theories, however there's one interesting bit: apparently, the killer contacted the authorities years ago, perhaps multiple times, and claimed he was subject to illegal surveillance. Whether there's something fishy here or he was just a paranoid crazy is hard to tell though. (See Hanau: Attentäter kontaktierte Behörden offenbar lange vor der Tat - WELT)
 
Yes, the way public perception is managed is just disgusting. Same old "here's proof that everyone who doesn't agree with the mainstream is a Nazi."

I agree that it's too early for conspiracy theories, however there's one interesting bit: apparently, the killer contacted the authorities years ago, perhaps multiple times, and claimed he was subject to illegal surveillance. Whether there's something fishy here or he was just a paranoid crazy is hard to tell though. (See Hanau: Attentäter kontaktierte Behörden offenbar lange vor der Tat - WELT)


Here is a newsworthy item which "inexplicably" didn't make it into the mainstream media...

Beatrix von Storch on the Hanau failure of the federal prosecutor's office:
"The Attorney General must resign"


Source

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Beatrix von Storch (née Beatrix Amelie Duchess of Oldenburg) explained to the press that the Attorney General's Office had apparently known since November of Rathjen's serious mental health problem. However, neither the gun license nor the weapon was revoked. She therefore demands the resignation of the Attorney General.


Beatrix von Storch who is a lawmaker for the (much loathed) AfD party in the Bundestag went on to say:

The head of the Federal Criminal Police Office today spoke of a severe psychotic illness of the assassin. But the Federal Public Prosecutor General had not taken any action, although it had been known for a long time. It would have been necessary to revoke the gun license and the weapon from this severely psychologically ill person. But nothing of the sort had happened.

According to von Storch, this was once again a serious failure of the security authorities. One should finally stop exploiting this terrible day for party political purposes. Rather, one should talk about the resignation of the Attorney General.

And she added in response to the journalists' question: The assassin's writings clearly show that the assassin was a seriously mentally disturbed person.


Like it or not, the AfD party is probably the only genuine opposition party left standing in Germany.

With the political ambiance in Germany nearing that of 1932 (denial of free speech, Antifa encroachments against dissenters, character assassinations, thinly veiled threats against people pursueing their careers or conducting their businesses) the AfD is the canary in the coalmine. As long as they can be seen sitting in parliaments and sometimes raising their voices the seizure of power by the new totalitarianism is not complete yet.
 
Monday, 24 February 2020 - European Commissioner Margaritis Schinas, in charge of promoting the European way of life and fighting against antisemitism, on Monday strongly condemned floats and disguises caricaturing Jews at the Aalst Carnival the day before.

“It is clear to me: the Aalst Carnival is a shame. It needs to stop. No place for this in Europe,” Schinas tweeted in reference to carnival groups who, surfing on last year’s controversy, on Sunday again depicted Jews with hooked noses, sometimes dressed as ants.

Belgium? I thought that Belgium didn't even exist...

La Belgique n'existe pas 🇧🇪❓

The Elite Left have been hard at work dissimulating our reality. Through the deft use of relativism and red herrings like political correctness, they have been able to slip Belgium into history and geography without anyone noticing. The cleverness of this is almost laudable. Belgium history was designed with just enough territorial skirmishes, political struggles, and colonialism to make it blend in with the rest of Europe. That, combined with the co-opting of French and German historical figures and events creates an alternate history that meshes with the real one. Where does the contrivances stop and reality begin? What's more, under the auspices of the Liberal controlled Department of Education, our children are being forced to believe in these lies. History has been revised so many times that it's no wonder public schools want more money; they keep having to buy new history books!
 
Police said an investigation was underway, urging bystanders of the event to refrain from sharing footage and images online and requesting they upload it to a dedicated information portal instead.
So that it is easier for them to fabricate an acceptable scenario of what they want people to see and think. It was probably another nut job popping his top and the unaware paying the price. Carnivals ain't what they used to be, I guess.
 
A second man has been detained, accused of filming the incident.

Germany tightens carnival security after driver with 'dead' expression injures 61
Germany tightens carnival security after driver with 'dead' expression injures 61 | news24x7world

02/25/2020 - The Kassel district court ordered the suspect, a 29-year-old German man, remanded in custody on suspicion of attempted murder, grievous bodily harm and dangerous interference with road traffic, a spokesman for the prosecutor said in a statement.

* The 61 people injured – some of them seriously – were aged between two and 85. Investigations into the driver’s motive were continuing and all possibilities were being investigated, the prosecutor’s spokesman added.

* An emergency responder said bystanders had punched the man while he tried to choke her as she leaned into the car to remove the key after his vehicle crashed. “He didn’t say a word. He looked at you empty and dead and seemed so satisfied,” Lea-Sophie Schloemer told Welt television. “It was really unnerving how satisfied he seemed.” Initial tests for alcohol were negative but that was not a final assessment and there were as yet no results from the drug test, the prosecutors’ spokesman said.

* Prosecutors confirmed that a second man had been detained at the scene on Monday and was accused of filming the incident.
The spokesman said prosecutors were investigating whether the man had links to the driver.

* Police had searched two homes in the town, including one apartment near to the scene that a police officer said was the home of relatives of the man.
 

TWO PEOPLE HAVE been killed and others have been wounded after being attacked by a man wielding a knife in a town under lockdown south of the French city of Lyon today.


The attack happened at 11am in a commercial street in Romans-sur-Isere, the anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press.


The alleged attacker was arrested by police nearby, shortly after the attack. Prosecutors did not identify him.


Prosecutors said that other people were also wounded.


The office said it is evaluating whether the attack was motivated by terrorism, but that it has not launched any formal proceedings to treat it as such.








Like the rest of France, the town’s residents are on coronavirus-linked lockdown.


The victims were carrying out their weekend food shopping on the street that has bakeries and grocers, the office said.


Two-metre distancing is being encouraged as in the rest of the country.


There have been a number of knife attacks in France in recent months.


In January, French police shot and injured a man in Metz who was waving a knife and shouting “Allahu akbar”.


Two days earlier, another man was shot dead by police after he stabbed one person fatally and wounded two others in a Paris suburb.
 
Woke up to see this in my world news feed. Not sure what the motivation was for the gunman- cabin fever from the lockdown or just beaming that set him off perhaps? He left about 16 crime scenes in his wake and was disguised as a police officer at one stage. He also burned three houses with victims inside.

Death toll in Canada's worst mass shooting rises to 19
The death toll from the worst mass shooting in Canadian history has risen to 19, with police saying they expect the number to grow.
  • A police officer was among those killed in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia
  • Police identified the gunman as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, who worked as a denturist
  • There are at least 16 crime scenes, some of which were set on fire
The gunman, who at one point masqueraded as a policeman and also painstakingly disguised his car to look like a police cruiser, shattered the peace of a rural community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia during a 12-hour rampage that started late on Saturday (local time), authorities said.

"A gunman claimed the lives of at least 18 people, among them a woman in uniform whose job it is to protect lives even if it endangers her own," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters. He was referring to veteran Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Constable Heidi Stevenson, who was killed in the shooting spree.

"It happened in small towns: Portapique, Truro, Milford and Enfield, places where people have deep roots, places where people know their neighbours and look out for one another," Mr Trudeau said. The RCMP identified the gunman as 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, who worked as a denturist. Police are still searching for his motivation for the deadly rampage.In addition to the 19 victims, one RCMP officer was injured and is now recovering at home, the police union said.

The police said their investigation of the shootings would take months, and they had identified at least 16 crime scenes. "We're relatively confident we've identified all the crime scenes," Nova Scotia RCMP Chief Superintendent Chris Leather told reporters on Monday, but he added fires lit at some of those sites, mostly homes, made the search for other victims difficult.
"We believe there may be victims still within the remains of those homes which burnt to the ground," he said.
RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Sunday there was no indication the killings were linked to terrorism. Police also said there was no apparent link between the gunman and at least some of his victims.
Social distancing to slow the coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lack of community memorials added "heartbreak on top of other heartbreaks," Mr Trudeau acknowledged.

"The pandemic will prevent us from mourning together in person, but a vigil will be held virtually to celebrate the lives of the victims," he said. He urged media organisations to avoid using the name and picture of the gunman. "Do not give him the gift of infamy. Let us instead focus all our intention and attention on the lives we lost and the families and friends who grieve," he said.
"This day is made all the more difficult because of the precious lives lost in the senseless act of one person. Just how could this happen? We may never know why, but we do know this: No one man's action can build a wall between us and a better day, no matter how evil, how thoughtless, or how destructive."

Police began advising residents overnight Saturday in the rural town of Portapique, about 100 kilometres north of Halifax, to lock their doors and stay in their basements. People in the town, like all Canadians, had been adhering to government advice to remain at home because of the coronavirus pandemic and most of the victims were inside their homes when the attack began.

Several bodies were later found inside and outside one home on Portapique Beach Road, the street where the suspect lived, authorities said. Bodies were also found at several other locations within about a 50-kilometre area from the neighbourhood where the shootings began. Authorities believe the shooter may have targeted his first victims but then began attacking randomly. Several homes in the area were set on fire.

Police initially said Wortman had been arrested at a gas station in Enfield, outside Halifax, but later said he had died.
It was not clear how, and they did not provide further details, although one police official said there was an exchange of gunfire bhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-21/death-toll-in-canada-worst-mass-shooting-rises-trudeau-tribute/12167500etween the suspect and police at one point.
-https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-21/death-toll-in-canada-worst-mass-shooting-rises-trudeau-tribute/12167500
 
I wonder what police are doing during 12 hr rampage when the entire country is in lock down? There is 800% increase in depression treatment hotlines due to lock down. we may not know what happened immediately, but it is sad. It looks no body is in control of the situation.
 
This has the makings of a conspiracy theory.

Used a police vehicle
Killed in several towns
Houses burned

And people disguising their vehicles as police cars is a strange phenomenon that is been in the news recently. The question is why would someone do that?
 
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Yes, it looked like strange theater when I turned on the news this morning here. There was the head of the RCMP (i think) and a female colleague stumbling through a press conference. Wasn't really sure what was going on, because the scrolling part on the screen was only about cov19. It seems that at that point, they were preparing for media questions, but the questions were by phone. I guess with physical distancing, no media were allowed to be there in person. Tons of glitches, no one on the line, and one caller came on and dropped the F bomb.

I did finally ascertain that there was a mass shooting, and went online to find out more about it. At first I couldn't see mention of it, just Cov19, wall to wall, then finally saw the story buried at the bottom.

Here is a screen grab:

Maybe a small thing, but it did appear to me strange that such a big story, supposedly the worst mass murder in Canadian history, got so little attention.

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Maybe a small thing, but it did appear to me strange that such a big story, supposedly the worst mass murder in Canadian history, got so little attention.
I saw it on my youtube front page, where the headlines usually are, but after a short while, I checked the headline section again for updates, and there was no Canadian shooting headline. I had to use search to get videos on it.
 
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